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I think what's definitely different nowadays is her voice. I am so happy about how her voice sounds now. If she still sounded like she did from 1998-2001 I would not listen to her music as much as I do now. The albums that I do listen to the most are all of the albums from Memorial address - Rock 'n' Roll Circus because her voice really shines the most on those albums and the arrangements to most of her songs are fantastic. I notice that lyrically she has gone through changes too. I feel like most of her lyrics used to have a hopeless/sad feel but now she's more optimistic and you can see that she wants to spread that optimism around in a lot of her songs nowadays. I have to say, the lyrics to "Last Links" are probably my favorite lyrics from ayu because of the hope that they bring. I love her hopeful lyrics nowadays, and prefer them to something extremely dark like say the "POWDER SNOW" lyrics. All in all, my favorite ayu is the ayu we have now. I enjoy so many more of her songs nowadays than I do in her earlier albums (even though a lot of those songs are great too). Her voice + compositions + lyrics just appeal to me a lot more now.
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